At first, the scene seemed like a familiar one from Baghdad in April 2003; an enormous ruined government building in grand grounds, windows smashed in, all looted out, documents scattered over the flowerbeds.
The man had been dumped near the rubbish bins at the back, blood spreading across his chequered shirt. An orderly, who had been burying bloated corpses in a mass grave in the hospital grounds, recited the Muslim last rites.
Dear Mr Da Vinci
<i>Re: Your application for National Arts Council funding for proposed Wall Painting Project “The Last Supper”</i>
It would be a grave mistake to view the scenes of rejoicing in Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein as a post hoc sanctification of the United States’s criminal invasion of Iraq.
The South African Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) has threatened mass action to protest against the government’s plan to restructure ports operations, saying the move will result in massive job losses.
Already off the world radar because of the war in Iraq, Africa toppled further when World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiators missed deadlines vital for the economic growth of the continent last week.
New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) should sell off its media interests and use the proceeds, together with its stockpile of R639-million, to pay off its shareholders.
Whiling away the afternoon on the laptop nestled into a comfy sofa in the corner of a coffee shop has a certain appeal. Settling into a yellow plastic chair in McDonald’s surrounded by screaming kids to write your great novel doesn’t have quite the same magic.
All this floor-crossing has the manne at the Dorsbult quite confused. In fact we spent so much time redrawing our colour-coded diagram of the National Assembly that Oom Krisjan had no time to remark on the movements last week.
Sir Alex Ferguson’s initial allegations of a rigged draw for the Champions League quarterfinals have become far easier to interpret. He was not so much lambasting the administrators as raging against the heavens.